Sandra Stone


Sandra Stone was an Oregon-based visual and conceptual artist as well as a poet, playwright and author of literary fiction and nonfiction.

Life

Sandra Stone was born Alessandria Stone on April 4, 1934, in Portland, Oregon. She married Mel Peters in 1956 and changed her name to Sandra Peters. The couple had three children prior to their divorce. She had use Sandra Stone as her professional name.
Sandra Stone has received more than 35 commissions from major architectural firms to create art for both public interiors and the landscape. She describes her work as "creating metaphor for space through architectural concepts, context, and literary text."
She was awarded fellowships from Bread Loaf, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Literary Arts Inc. In 2007 her writing won the Dana Award in Poetry. In 2000 her 24-word letter was chosen from among 7,500 entries as the winner of a one-time national competition sponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan and the US Postal Service. Her 1997 collection of poetry, Cocktails with Breughel at the Museum Café, was selected as the winner of a national manuscript competition. In 1998 Stone's book won the Oregon Literary Arts Book Award.
Her work has appeared in The Hudson Review, The New Republic, International Poetry Review, JAMA, The Midwest Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, The Southwest Review, and elsewhere.
She had lived in Portland, Oregon, and sometimes in New York City. She died in Portland, Oregon, on February 27, 2018, at the age 83.)

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